History According to Reti‚ the Brazilian soldier and historian of science‚ the first machine that could be characterized as a centrifugal pump was a mud lifting machine which appeared as early as 1475 in a treatise by the Italian Renaissance engineer Francesco di Giorgio Martini.[3] True centrifugal pumps were not developed until the late 17th century‚ when Denis Papin made one with straight vanes. The curved vane was introduced by British inventor John Appold in 1851. How it works Radial Flow Centrifugal
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Katia Alibrandi or Nonna is one of the influential characters in both texts. She was born in Sicily but moved to Australia with her husband‚ Francesco Alibrandi. Although‚ Katia seems overbearing sometimes‚ she is quite protective of her family. It seems that Katia only wants the best for herself‚ Christiana who is her daughter and her granddaughter‚ Josephine. This is evident in the novel when
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Cited: Davide‚ Francesco. "European Oil Paintings." The Metropolitan Mueseum of Art (2001): 45-51. Http://www.metmueseum.org/. The Metropolitan Mueseum of Art. Web. 8 Mar. 2011. Mayer‚ Ralph‚ and Steven Sheehan. The Painter ’s Craft: an Introduction to Artists ’ Methods
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premium coffee maker. Their coffee bean suppliers need to follow a very demanding standards in order to work with them. Throughout the years‚ Illy Gruppo has developed an outstanding value in coffee making. This company has a long family story. Francesco Illy‚ the founder of the company‚ was the first one to develop the first coffee machine. In 1933‚ there was the first established Illy coffee making production. In 2014‚ Illy is a well known brand operating on 5 continents in 150 different countries
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idealized conventional human figure. Giotto rejected the long‚ elegant lines of the Byzantine style and went for a more realistic representation. He based his works on the real rather than the divine and idealistic. Painted in 1300 for the Church of San Francesco in Pisa‚ The Stigmatization of St. Francis illustrates stories from the life of the saint‚ who was a particular inspiration to Giotto. In this signed panel‚ Giotto uses the realistic human form‚ space‚ colour‚ gesture and placement of figures to
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Erik Erikson was a German developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychological development of human beings. Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of eight stages over the lifespan: Trust vs Mistrust‚ Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt‚ Initiative vs Guilt‚ Industry vs Inferiority‚ Identity vs Role Confusion‚ Intimacy vs Isolation‚ Generativity vs Stagnation and Ego Integrity vs Despair. Examples of these stages can be recognised in the film Looking For
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The nineteenth century is an interesting time where immigration‚ a time where people from other countries come to a specific place‚ like America. There are a lot of unique things that benefit the country. Even though other countries brought certain items to many different places‚ these countries shared their culture with America because the individuals that live there wanted to share what they have with others. The Germans‚ Italians‚ and Irish made a difference by making contributions all over the
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Performing Arts Paper According to the textbook Perceiving the Arts‚ opera is defined as the “combination of drama and music into a single artistic form” (Sporre‚ 2009). Opera is made up of primarily music along with other elements similar to a play such as costumes‚ scenery‚ lights‚ and a plot. Unlike a play‚ the plot of an opera unfolds through a combination of acting and singing. The follow provides an historical development and evolution of opera and the characteristics of the opera genre
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from erotic to tragic. It provided a document of life during that time and it is considered to be a masterpiece of the Italian prose. From 1350 Boccaccio became involved with Italian humanism and the Florentine government. He was asked to greet Francesco Petrarch. During their meeting‚ everything went well. Boccaccio started calling Petrarch his teacher and Minister and was encouraged to study classical Greek and Latin literature. Boccaccio then began working on his first edition of Genealogia Deorum
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The word renaissance means rebirth. This is a French word used to renew the aspects of the classical world of that time period with the application of Greco- Roman learning that had an effect on everything from culture‚ politics‚ science‚ and philosophy. It was first used by historians Jules Michelet and Jacob Burkhardt‚ who translated the term from the Italian Rinascita or Rinascimento. It was concluded that the Greco-Roman era was one of the heights of human achievement because it called for the
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